
Interim Senior Director
Paige Cadigan is Interim Senior Director at Centre for Public Impact.
She joined CPI in 2018.
Paige has a Bachelor’s Degree in Leadership and Public Policy and in Global Development Studies from the University of Virginia.
Paige is proud of her work at CPI, partnering with Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins, and the Harvard Center for Cities to design, implement, and iterate the Innovation Track and Training Programmes. The team has reached over 1,000 public servants in 90 cities – helping to generate tens of thousands of ideas in partnership with thousands of residents.
She also served as the design coach for the city of Phoenix, a winner of the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge. The city faced a 30% increase in job posting, but more than 200,000 residents filing for unemployment in the immediate post-pandemic period. Paige helped the team to prototype and test the idea of a Mobile Career Unit to provide targeted support to job seekers where they live—including training, interview opportunities, translation services, and connections to employers ready to hire them on the spot.
Paige is passionate about CPI’s work to build cultures of innovation and learning in local governments around the world. She says the best part of her job are the moments when a lifelong public servant reflects a reinvigorated perspective about why they got into their job in the first place and how they’ve connected more deeply with the residents they serve as a result.
Outside of work, she finds joy from her daughter, Theo, her husband, Will, her dog, Bennett, and a summery day on the beaches of southern Maine.